Quiz Discussion

The _________ provides a set of operations that take one or more relations as input and return a relation as an output.

• 1]

  Schematic representation

• 2]

  Relational algebra

• 3]

  Scheme diagram

• 4]

  Relation flow

Course(course_id,sec_id,semester)

Here the course_id,sec_id and semester are __________ and course is a _________

• 1]

  Relations, Attribute

• 2]

  Attributes, Relation

• 3]

  Tuple, Relation

• 4]

  Tuple, Attributes

Student(ID, name, dept name, tot_cred)
In this query which attributes form the primary key?

• 1]

  Name

• 2]

  Dept

• 3]

  Tot_cred

• 4]

  ID

SELECT name
FROM instructor
WHERE dept name = ’Physics’
ORDER BY name;

By default, the order by clause lists items in ______ order.

• 1]

  Descending

• 2]

  Any

• 3]

  Same

• 4]

  Ascending

SELECT *
FROM instructor
ORDER BY salary ____, name ___;

To display the salary from greater to smaller and name in ascending order which of the following options should be used?

• 1]

  Ascending, Descending

• 2]

  Asc, Desc

• 3]

  Desc, Asc

• 4]

  Descending, Ascending

The term _______ is used to refer to a row.

• 1]

  Attribute

• 2]

  Tuple

• 3]

  Field

• 4]

  Instance

SELECT instructor.*
FROM instructor, teaches
WHERE instructor.ID= teaches.ID;

This query does which of the following operation?

• 1]

  All attributes of instructor and teaches are selected

• 2]

  All attributes of instructor are selected on the given condition

• 3]

  All attributes of teaches are selected on given condition

• 4]

  Only the some attributes from instructed and teaches are selected

The_____ operation allows the combining of two relations by merging pairs of tuples, one from each relation, into a single tuple.

• 1]

  Select

• 2]

  Join

• 3]

  Union

• 4]

  Intersection

Using which language can a user request information from a database?

• 1]

  Query

• 2]

  Relational

• 3]

  Structural

• 4]

  Compiler

A relational database consists of a collection of

• 1]

  Tables

• 2]

  Fields

• 3]

  Records

• 4]

  Keys